1st Edition

Quick Sketching with Ron Husband

By Ron Husband Copyright 2014
    368 Pages
    by Routledge

    Quick sketching is the best technique you can use to stay finely tuned and to keep those creative juices flowing. To keep your sense of observation heightened, and to sharpen your hand-eye coordination, an animator needs to constantly draw and sketch. Quick Sketching with Ron Husband offers instruction to quick sketching and all its techniques. From observing positive and negative space and learning to recognize simple shapes in complex forms to action analysis and using line of action, this Disney legend teaches you how to sketch using all these components, and how to do it in a matter of seconds. On top of instruction and advice, you‘ll also see Ron‘s portfolio of select art representing his growth as an artist throughout the years. Watch his drawings as he grows from a young, talented artist, to a true Disney animator. Follow him as he goes around the world and sketches flamenco dancers, football players, bakers, joggers, lions, tigers, anyone, and anything. As if instruction and inspiration in one place weren‘t enough, you‘ll find a sketchbook included, so you can flip from Ron‘s techniques and work on perfecting basic shapes. Or take your book on the road, read Ron‘s advice, sketch away, capture the world around you.

    Chapter 1. The Basics Chapter 2. Analysis of Action Chapter 3. Everyday Activities Chapter 4. The Art of Sitting Chapter 5 – Table Games Chapter 6. Standing with Attitude Chapter 7. Walking with Style Chapter 8. Children Chapter 9. Special Occasions Chapter 10. Music, Dancing and Singing Chapter 11. The Zoo Chapter 12. Individual Sports Chapter 13. Team Sports Chapter 14. Quick Sketching Around the World

    Biography

    Ron Husband is a Disney animator who has worked on films such as The Small One, The Fox and the Hound, The Black Cauldron, The Great Mouse Detective, Oliver & Company, The Little Mermaid, The Rescuers Down Under, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, The Lion King, Pocahontas, Fantasia 2000 , the re-release of Beauty and the Beast in IMAX format and Treasure Planet released in 2002 where he animated Long John Silver. He also animated the cool cat in the music video for Paula Abdul’s Opposites Attract. On top of his animation credits, Ron has also illustrated numerous children’s books and magazines, and runs drawing workshops at Cal Arts, Gnomon school and other locations all over the world.